The Flip was a great little video camera. Especially after coming off those big, clumsy video cameras we all bought a few years before. I bought a Flip. Redundant now, of course. And only after a few years.
Now of course we're all videographers with our Smart phones. We were only talking yesterday about our early days in our first band (The Buffalo Band - not sure why "Buffalo "as we were all young teenagers from Liverpool!. We'd never even seen a cow in real life!).
We were saying we have no footage of us playing in the mid-60's. Nothing. Whereas nowadays we'd have tons of video footage and images.
For better or worse the Smart phone has been a game changer.
That's so true. I so wish we had video of some of those days five or 10 years earlier when, for instance, Chuck Romine was still rocking that Dixie(out)landish banjo with us. For those days, for a film record we were at the mercy of local TV stations maybe shooting 30 seconds of us somewhere.
FYI, here's one of the earliest vids in collection, from 2001, part of a local television news report:
My first band, The Buffalo Band, that I mentioned in the earlier post Charles, are playing a one-off reunion gig tonight, 55 years after we last played together. When we were 16 or 17 we managed to blag ourselves on regional TV on a prorgamme called "First Timers". I remember our percussionist's (we didnt' know the word then!), was playing a tambourine and his hand was shaking so much the sound guy on the set had to adjust the sound as we were being announced.
But sadly, no trace of it anywhere. It'd be a real hoot to watch it now.
That video still sounds great Charles. Great for you to have as a record of those days.
The Flip was a great little video camera. Especially after coming off those big, clumsy video cameras we all bought a few years before. I bought a Flip. Redundant now, of course. And only after a few years.
Now of course we're all videographers with our Smart phones. We were only talking yesterday about our early days in our first band (The Buffalo Band - not sure why "Buffalo "as we were all young teenagers from Liverpool!. We'd never even seen a cow in real life!).
We were saying we have no footage of us playing in the mid-60's. Nothing. Whereas nowadays we'd have tons of video footage and images.
For better or worse the Smart phone has been a game changer.
Great video by the way... ;-)
That's so true. I so wish we had video of some of those days five or 10 years earlier when, for instance, Chuck Romine was still rocking that Dixie(out)landish banjo with us. For those days, for a film record we were at the mercy of local TV stations maybe shooting 30 seconds of us somewhere.
FYI, here's one of the earliest vids in collection, from 2001, part of a local television news report:
https://youtu.be/_ynxgHBj4rc
My first band, The Buffalo Band, that I mentioned in the earlier post Charles, are playing a one-off reunion gig tonight, 55 years after we last played together. When we were 16 or 17 we managed to blag ourselves on regional TV on a prorgamme called "First Timers". I remember our percussionist's (we didnt' know the word then!), was playing a tambourine and his hand was shaking so much the sound guy on the set had to adjust the sound as we were being announced.
But sadly, no trace of it anywhere. It'd be a real hoot to watch it now.
That video still sounds great Charles. Great for you to have as a record of those days.